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Isn't Cabrini Green what Frank Miller based "The Green" in "Give Me Liberty" off of?
Posted by Wagner at December 24, 2003 12:40 AM
66.25.131.226
I'm 28, and for me, Christmas has already become an incontinent old mutt that i want to explode with half a pound of dynamite because it won't stop huping my leg or pissing on the floor, yet everybody else seems to think is the most darling thing in the world.
With that being said, i always thought the Irish were a pagan tribe too primitive to hold a concept so sacred as Christ in their hearts without defaming it. I'm glad to see that these "Pogues" have not let me down. Feh!
Posted by Bill at December 24, 2003 01:24 AM
208.22.32.230
Wagner: Yup. Cabrini Green's kind of notorious, as far as the country's public housing goes. It was a total hellhole for years. It's getting slowly dismantled now, though; Chicago's doing this unusual, forward-thinking, "mixed housing" experiment, and they're moving all the former Cabrini Green residents into middle-class neighborhoods. This burning bulding is less than half-full, and Matt took the picture from his job, out the window of a cushy, pricey loft office building less than a mile from the projects.
The abandoned highrises attracts pyros like ants to honey. This isn't the first fire.
The Green itself will be gone, just a memory, by 2006. So much for Martha, eh?
And Bill: Throw out your TV. You'd be shocked how blissfully ignorant you can be to holiday media blitzes without one!
Posted by spike at December 24, 2003 04:04 AM
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All my comics are in longboxes in the garage, which are under even more boxes full of books, so I can't go and check, but I'm pretty sure that Martha was born in 1996, the same year Rexall was first elected President. The Green getting torn down ahead of schedule is kind of the least of the continuity problems.
Another vote for throwing out your television, too.
Posted by Wagner at December 24, 2003 12:53 PM
66.25.131.226
nice to find a site that has 'pogues'-lyrics
keep on going !!!
Posted by simon at February 2, 2004 12:42 PM
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Bill keep your slanderous opinions to yourself. I'm Irish and I think that opinion is very hurtful. Most Irish people are good catholics who love and rever God with every fiber of their being, I may not be one of them but I used to be so I find comments like yours very hurful indeed.
Posted by JonC at December 20, 2005 11:40 AM
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Cabrini Green was the building in Candyman..
"Helen......."
Posted by Colin McMahon at April 27, 2006 10:37 AM
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This is the best x-mas song ever!!!
-ryan-
Posted by ryan sadler at September 2, 2006 01:15 AM
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yes I agree with spike, I have lived in cabrini Green all my life (17yrs) and it has effected me in any and every way. To see the buildings that I had fun in and have memory for come down is sad, but it;s all for a good cause, to let all of us live a better life.
Posted by Angelene at June 2, 2008 11:42 AM
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still best x-mas song ever!
Posted by ryan sadler at December 16, 2009 06:11 PM
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still best x-mas song ever!
Posted by ryan sadler at December 16, 2009 06:11 PM
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